peerconn.go | 2 +-

diff --git a/peerconn.go b/peerconn.go
index f0efb19dd00aee36ded2712bab52bec1aa98fd7f..902b53ccd9865edbe83f751174e7291375b05d53 100644
--- a/peerconn.go
+++ b/peerconn.go
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ }
 
 // The actual value to use as the maximum outbound requests.
 func (cn *Peer) nominalMaxRequests() (ret maxRequests) {
-	return maxRequests(clamp(1, int64(cn.PeerMaxRequests), 128))
+	return maxRequests(clamp(1, int64(cn.PeerMaxRequests), 2048))
 }
 
 func (cn *Peer) totalExpectingTime() (ret time.Duration) {